IPLEX17W -
IPLEX Lunch
(Winter 2017)

2/24/2017 - Rotationally Disrupting Bodies

Information:

12:00 PM - 1:00 PM
Geology 3814

Presented By:

David Jewitt - UCLA

Abstract

Rotationally Disrupting Bodies

I will present observations of a disrupting asteroid and a disrupting comet nucleus, and argue that the mechanism in both cases is rotational disruption of a nearly strengthless (~100 M/m^2) aggregate.